With the community edition, you are in charge. This means you are responsible for installing, running, updating, and ensuring security. Support with the community edition is a group project. Any community member can ask questions and provide answers on the community forums. The community edition is free. But we like to say it's free, as in "free puppy". Abre needs attention if you plan to run it on a production server.

What is the difference between the community edition and the plans offered by Abre?2017-10-24T18:13:45+00:00

We do but you really don't need it. Abre is designed to be easy and intuitive to use. Built on a familiar material design framework and with teachers, students and parents in mind we found adoption to be quick. Abre will provide training videos and a help desk but we are confident that we won't be tying up staff trying to figure out how Abre works!

It's more. We think of Abre as a District Managment Software... or a DMS. While Abre has capabilities to integrate with an LMS, it also provides a foundation for building specific applications for districts. These applications follow programming norms AND talk to each other. Data can be shared between Abre Apps and external applications like student information systems and office suites.